The next Twitter? -BBC News

14 March 2011 Last updated at 23: 49 GMT By Matt Danzico BBC News, Austin, Texas Scvngr's Seth Priebatsch on how the "game layer" could help societyYou can almost feel a buzz on the fingertips of attendees shaking hands at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival in AustinTexas - one of the world's biggest networking opportunities for the web community.

A little micro-blogging site Twitter launched here called as a start-up in 2007 - and there are plenty of people attending this year who want to emulate their success.

The technology enthusiast behind a myriad start-up companies have flocked to Texas this week for one reason: to get their applications on to the mobile phones of trend-setting early adopters.

Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of Foursquare, a mobile application allowing users to "check-in" at rentals, from cafes to concerts to office buildings, and send that information to friends also using the app.

Foursquare launched here in 2009, picked up 5,000 users in four days and is now a sizeable social media player, boasting some seven million users. Mr Crowley says there are few other events where start-ups can accelerate both excitement about their companies and growth.

"It's a great little laboratory for developers," Mr Crowley says.

"[For us] it's one of these things where it really quickly spread in four days of the conference." It has turned into a really good launchpad for start-ups because you have just the right amount of people that are in this early adopt community, and they're down there specifically not so much to go to the conference, intended to go to the partieshang out and socialise.

"And a lot of the tools that people are really interested in building are tools that allow people to go out and socialise."

So what are some of the hottest applications in town this year - and who are the people behind them?

Scvngr is a location-based mobile app similar to Foursquare that asks individuals checking in to a location to complete challenges created by businesses, institutions or fans of the application.

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The reason we're at South by Southwest, and the reason everyone else is here, is that it's the most concentrated influx of exciting, fun, early adoption, tech people who are willing to try out anything at least once"

End Quote Seth Priebatsch Scvngr When a Scvngr user checks in to a locationlike a gym or restaurant, the application presents a list of real-world challenges - asking the individual to answer a question or riddle or to accept a dare to earn points and seek a reward. Discounts on products or free goods are then sometimes given to those that accomplish the tasks.

Scvngr chief executive Seth Priebatsch, a 22-year-old who refers to himself as the company's "chief ninja", gave the keynote speech this year at SXSW Interactive in front of 2,500 attendees and some 3,500 others who watched from screens in 11 other rooms at the convention centre.

He says that although the application was officially unveiled to consumers nine months ago, "the reason we're at South by Southwest, and the reason everyone else is here, is that it's the most concentrated influx of exciting, fun, early adoption, tech people who are willing to try out anything at least once."

"They are going to try it out at least once, and it's our job to try to win them over and try it out again and again."

Like Mr Crowley, Mr Priebatsch is interested in pushing characteristics typically associated with video games into a physical space through the company's app, which already claims 1. 2 m users.

Mr Priebatsch says social media companies, like Facebook, have built a "social layer" around the world that works successfully.

He now expects the next 10 years to be devoted to creating "the game layer" on top of society, which he thinks could fundamentally change how people interact with their environments.

The networking service Hashable, launched in October 2010, is attempting to do away with physical business cards and to work as a platform to facilitate business introductions, prompting people to leave their comfort zones and meet others.

Hashable CEO Mike Yavonditte on how his app could help change business networking

The service was built from the organisational functionality of Twitter tweetgift and uses these tags, like # lunch, # businessdrinks or # SXSW, to remind users where real world connections took place.

When a Hashable user meets a potential business connection, the e-mail address or Twitter username of that person is noted along with the location of the meeting, and that information is then sent to other friends and business colleagues using the application.

Users are also prompted to introduce people within their network whom they think would benefit from knowing each other. Making a connection earns the user credits known as "hash cred" and rankings based on the the amount of credits are led by those in your network.

Hashable chief executive Michael Yavonditte, who has spent much of his time at SXSW Interactive speaking to other tech heads about the new service, says the New York-based team is adding close to 1,000 users a day and has already signed up tens of thousands of business-minded individuals.

"We kept looking at number of gestures that normal white collar professionals perform on a regular basis: meetings, breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee, drinks." "all of those things are incredibly important events, none of which make it to the internet," Mr Yavonditte says.

"and so we decided to create hashable in order to structure that information and share it with friends."

The start-up Instagram, has developed a photo-sharing application for the iPhone which enables people to take photographs and immediately share them with friends through a Twitter-style feed.

Instagram's Michael Krieger: ' We wanted to liberate photographs from mobile phones'

The San Francisco-based firm debuted only five months ago and already claims an astounding 2. 5 m users.

Co-founder Michael Krieger says the company is helping to explore the future of the digital photograph by allowing individuals to instantaneously post and receive feedback on each of their photos.

"We thought back to the 1950s and 60s when instant cameras started coming out, and even earlier with the Polaroid camera," Mr Krieger says, adding that people were excited because the cameras offered immediate ways to share photos with friends and family.

Goal, he says, the problem with digital photographs has been that many people upload them infrequently, so they can be left sitting on devices for a long time and not be seen.

The application is already in widespread use among the tech elite and has been used by many during the past four days as a way to SXSW Interactive catalogue.

Mr Krieger says part of the reason he is attending SXSW is because "it has the potential to launch you into a pretty awesome spot".

"this is our first sxsw, so there are people we wanted to correspond with and users with wanted to meet up with," he told the BBC over the phone, while attending a meet-up photography in downtown Austin to see how people are using the app.

"we wanted to get in front of people who have not seen us yet."

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The city of money of style - Toronto Star surf

Cathy Young, who uses Facebook, Twitter, Skype and other forms of social networking, said that for two years she did not buy anything online.Carlos Osorio/The Toronto Star

As 60 years who has taken a "little hard knocks," Cathy Young approached social media and trade online with extreme caution.

But once convinced progress in encryption and verification had made the web a safer place to do business and pursue social links, she jumped in with both feet.

"Two years did not purchase anything," said the resident of Toronto, a singer and actress who won a Juno for most promising female vocalist in the beginning of the 1970s. "But they have done much more secure servers and browsers, and it is so convenient."

After talk of measures to protect themselves, to establish a separate web identity and set up a p.o. box for deliveries of products, Young is now a regular visitor to auction online, Facebook and the MayoClinic.com, among other regional settings of the web.

And it is far from alone.

The 75-year-old makes the font bigger on his iPad, so it can read the text on the device of baby boomers who have become their own online travel agents, the so-called silver surfers are especially oriented USA respectively on the web in record numbers.

"They were later adapters," said McLean Greaves, Vice President of interactive media at base of Toronto ZoomerMedia Ltd. "but when they feel that the bugs have been established, they are around it."

He noted the data which show the boomers represent the demographic growth in the use of social media, text messaging and expenditure on equipment, including computers tablet, smartphones and e-readers.

It is a shift that represents a "tremendous opportunity" for Facebook online marketing experts and social media more boomers-centric and less crowded sites seeking to leverage their community of users in a stable source of income.

The question is whether relatively circumspect baby boomers will be more resistant than their younger counterparts to advertising on social networks and share their personal information and surfing stories with marketing specialists.

Greaves said the age group 60 70-plus is "highly suspicious" of online marketing, especially if it is formulated, a position as a "friend" in a group on Facebook.

"They don't want be unwanted messages and that they do not want be manipulated.".

Added Greaves boomers to marry an e-commerce, with fewer reservations if they had control over the use of their personal data.

Still, according to Young, Facebook banner ads can be useful if the products or services meet its specific needs, adding that she saw the marketing of social media as the inevitability.

Mary Furlong, whose companies advice firm in reaching senior markets, said boomers breathe a new life in the web business.

"This is the first cohort of elderly Internet savvy and they seek not to retire," she said.

Born between 1946 and 1964, and associated with the redefinition of traditional values, a boomer turns 60 the United States every 11 seconds, Furlong added.

"This is a generation that has a level of mental acuity that has not been seen before."

Individuals aged 65 and more are still less than 20 per cent of the active Internet universe, but their number is increasing rapidly. The number of elderly people online at the United States increased by more than 55%, 11.3 million of active users in November 2004 to 17.5 million in November 2009.

Among people over 65 years, the growth of women online in the period exceeded the growth of men by six percentage points.

The age group 70-75, according to Pew Internet and American Life Project was the largest increase of the use of the Internet since 2005. The survey found that 45 per cent of this age group is now online, compared with 26 per cent in 2005.

Search for health information are the third most popular online activity with the highest age group, after email and online research.

In addition, many seniors find exciting social networking and enjoy connecting with family and friends in the virtual world. They are the creation of their own blogs and, more often, to connect with their family and friends by joining Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

"Social media are giving the elderly a voice, and for a generation who felt isolated and sometimes overlooked, is no small feat, said Sarah Hoit, CEO of my Village of way".which designs social networks online for seniors.

And research published last week shows that Canadians continue to devote much more time online than people in other countries, with a growing number of older users, the growth of propulsion.

The numbers for 2010 published by comScore, the use of Internet monitoring company, has concluded that Canadians spent an average 43.5 hours online in the fourth quarter of 2010, almost double the average of the hours 23.1 surfed by the 11 countries studied.

Canadians also visited on different Web sites mean 95.2 during the period of three months, 15 more than their American counterparts, who considered the second most, and 42 more than the average in the world.

The number of Canadians who went online at least once in this neighbourhood also increased by 2% in 2009 - 24,989,000 visitors unique up to 24,602,000 in 2009.

Over 55 encouraged this increase, with 12 per cent more people in this age of statement group used that people did in 2009. Now population includes 19 per cent of users of the Internet, a segment of wider than the 18-24 (10 per cent), 25 to 34 years (18 per cent) and 35 to 44 years (18 per cent).

Coupon Web sites, such as SwarmJam or Groupon, drew 36 per cent more visits in 2010 that the previous year.

The study also followed social networking of Canadians, with Facebook (7 per cent), Twitter (11%) and LinkedIn (35 per cent) all claiming significant increases in unique visitors.

Site MySpace and blogs WordPress had their visitor counts shrink considerably - from 42 per cent and 16 per cent, respectively.

Websites, such as Hotmail and Gmail, e-mail also witnessed a decrease of 28 per cent of the number of daily visits.

ComScore study examined patterns in line of residents in the Canada, United States, United Kingdom, France, China, India, Brazil, Japan, Korea South, Russia and Germany.

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Android Trojan horse highlights risk the opening of the markets - Wired News

Android users travelling outside the official Android Market must be careful which apps they install. (Of a HTC Droid Eris) photo by Jon Snyder/Wired.com

Android fans have long defended philosophy "open" Google smartphone platform. The recent emergence of a new Trojan horse in unofficial places Android app, however, may cause users to think twice about how open they want the platform to be.

The application in question, Android.Walkinwat, appears to be a pirated, free another version application, "walking and text." The true version is available at the official purchase of market Google Android for a low price ($1.54).

If you download the wrong app (from informal markets for Android apps) and install it, it redirects you to the actual application in the Android market - but in the background, it sends the following message embarrassing for your complete directory via SMS:

Hey, just downloaded an app hacked off the coast of the internet, [sic] walk and text for Android. IM stupid and good market, it is encrypted only 1 buck.Do not steal like me!

Blatant spelling and grammatical errors aside, the text message serves as a reminder of the risks for those willing to go outside the official market for applications.

"Someone downloaded the app, inserted their malware and it downloaded in other non-official markets," Chief product Symantec mobile team John Engels said article in an interview.

In other words, if you go outside the official market, things may not be what they seem, and there is no guarantee that what you download, this is what you really want to.

Google maintains clear policies on all applications that are downloaded on the official Android market, and developers quite well know in advance what are these policies and how not to break. Whenever an application in clear violation of the policies of Google presents on the market - as, say, a piece of malicious software - engineers Google's Android are often quick to quash it.

But if you're not one for the regulations and rules, wicked and want to see what the markets not sanctioned by Google have to offer, simply access them on a device Android is for you to check a box on the settings page, allowing your phone install applications from "unknown sources".

To some extent, this is not a huge problem for the novice user. Many external applications are hosted on web sites that users like your grandmother probably are not going to file sharing. And unless they have tried to install these external applications by musical them, they have probably never disabled permissions from sources unknown box first.

But the beginning of the last week of new App Store Amazon may have changed. To install App Store Amazon on an Android device, you must first clear this permissions check box. While there may be no immediate risk with downloading apps from App Store the Amazon, he opens the door for users to enable the other informal - and therefore more risky - apps must be installed on their devices, from other sources.

"As soon as you flip the switch and go from the Android Market, which is the place where most people go, and then you put yourself at some risk,"a security researcher Charlie Miller told Wired in a previous interview."."

"The threat will persist as long as people continue to download software pirated networks peer-to-peer," analysts research threat Webroot Armando Orozco and Andrew Brandt said article. They say that sticking to the Android Market is your safest bet, but if you're still forced to go outside the box official for your applications, whether it's Amazon the App Store or another informal market, you should "carefully examine the permissions of the demandeset app does not install it if it is to have access to certain functions (like the)" (possibility to send SMS messages) that the application should not need access to the. »

But is not staying within the defeat of the Android Market the purpose of choosing a platform with a philosophy of "open"? If you want a more strict system, closed with stringent regulations on its applications through a review process, you can both buy an iPhone.

"Android users enabling music is not necessarily to piracy or the installation of applications from unsafe sources," says Alicia diVittorio, Lookout Mobile Security spokesman. "In fact, it's great to have another source for consumers download applications of a trade mark recognized as Amazon." Indeed, Amazon Appstore is not much different from Apple App Store: the two companies require an intense process of review and approval prior to any submitted developer of applications available to purchase.

Essentially, there is an inherent risk that comes with download apps for a device with an attitude of openness as the Android. Even the official market is susceptible to infiltration by malicious software, as evidenced in the corridor of malicious applications from the store this month. But, in an area relatively free and open, as the Android, the risk remains the admission price.

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The protection of personal information group minimizes the grab Google Buzz - register

Equipment for the defence of the interests of the U.S. web downplayed reports that suggest that it is $1 domains. 75 m on a class action settlement between the protection of privacy and Google groups, suite spring gaff in Mountain View with Buzz social network.

The Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Marc Rotenberg, told The Register that "money is not the main point" in the opposition brought before a district court of California earlier this week.

"Google lawyers did not want funds to organizations which were actually standing in society on the issue of Buzz," he told us, "and which is the main point here."

Groups that have benefited from funds included the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Brookings Institution.

Outside of the deposit, seen by El Reg, EPIC did not a public statement more on its beef on the settlement of continuation of the class action with Google.

On Wednesday, March 30, he praised a separate settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Google on Buzz, who stated that the web hub would be subject to verification of the biennial of privacy for the next 20 years.

EPIC, who led the initial Buzz of the FTC complaint, described this gesture as "far-reaching", though he was filing his objections against the regulations of the class action suit in court.

"It is the most important decision of privacy by the Commission to date." "For users of the internet, it should lead to higher standards of privacy and better protection of the personal data," said EPIC.

Reuters, stressed today that EPIC had requested $1. 75 m from the colony, after the group represented eight organizations for the protection of personal information online in its court filing earlier this week.

"There is very little national organizations truly focused on privacy online and even less that play an important role in the measures of protection of public policy and consumers to protect the privacy of commercial rights - non-governmental - interest""the filing reads."

"While the two industrient-financing and non-industry-funded groups are potentially worthy candidates for funding for many reasons, we believe it is imperative for the purposes of the establishment and the benefit of the class that organizations generally do not receive substantial industry funding allocated most of the funding in this case."

Last November, Google contacted all Gmail users via an email in which he confirmed he had reached a settlement in a trial in his privacy - lite Buzz social network has been bolted to everyone by default mailbox in early 2010.

"Shortly after its launch, we have heard a number of people who were concerned about the protection of personal information." In addition, we were sued by a group of users of Buzz and recently reached a settlement in this case, "Google wrote at the time."

He added that little money of $8. 5 m Fund would be used to distribute grants to groups for the protection of personal information of the internet. In addition, Google confirmed that money should be used to pay the lawyers and people who sued the company.

Google has raised the Buzz in February 2010. Launched, it automatically exposes most frequent Gmail contacts of users for the public interwebs. Users were given the option to hide the list from the view of the public, but many complained that cut the social network is tricky as a check box to do so is not displayed in their mailbox.

Days later, Google moved the location of the check box in an effort to reduce to silence complaints. It has also changed how treated Buzz contacts of the user. But these tweaks came too late for some, who responded in contentious fashion. ®

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The Gaddafi regime ' cracking ' as new defections loom-Belfast Telegraph

David Cameron's Government has shown it in urgent conversations with up to 10 higher figures in the regime of Colonel Gaddafi creaking about possible defection, after the dramatic arrival in Britain of chief henchman of the Libyan dictator for many of his 40 years in power.

As a former Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa (below) to "talk voluntarily" British officials yesterday, it was reported, was the Libyan regime to limit the damage of the desertion, suggests that he was exhausted and suffering mental health problems struggling.

But her ability to stop the domino effect turned out to be limited. It is understood that British officials have been in contact with up to 10 leading Libyan officials on following Mr Koussa of lead and forsake Gaddafi.

The apostasy of Mr Koussa, who flew in Farnborough airport from Tunisia on Wednesday, was seized upon by Mr Cameron as proof that the regime was crumbling.

Speaking at a press conference at Downing Street, Mr Cameron said: "the decision by the former Minister of Libyan to come to London to resign is a decision by someone on top. It tells a compelling story of despair right at the top of the crumbling and rotten Gaddafi regime. "

As Libyan diplomats at the United Nations said they expected further defections and reports emerged that a senior figure in the London Embassy of the country had changed sides, said Mr. Cameron others should now "come to their senses".

Meanwhile, speculation in Tripoli that a series of defections was not forthcoming.

And it was reinforced by the confirmation that Abussalam Ali Treki, a top Libyan official who as Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassador of the UNITED NATIONS served, on the "spilling of blood" by government troops had quit.

Rumours by the Libyan capital most closely focused on Abu Omar said Dudali, head of the foreign secret service; Mohammed Zwei, the |Secretary of the General People's Congress; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, who accompanied Moussa Koussa to at least as far as Tunis on the first leg of what turned out to be his flight, and — despite a statement that he in his Office in Tripoli was — Shokri Ghanem, Minister of oil.

Rebels claimed that Dudali has been sent to "liquidate" Mr Koussa, but instead became a member of a group of officials at the airport of Tunisia's Djerba who were planning to defect.

The disappearing henchmen ... who has jumped ship, and which can follow

Mustafa Mohamed Abud al-Jeleil

Libya the former Justice Minister resigned on 21 February on the regime "the excessive use of force against the demonstrators". He later claimed that Colonel Gaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing.

Al-Ali Abdussalam Treki

The senior Libyan politician defected allegedly yesterday after decades of service to the Gaddafi regime, including stints as Minister of Foreign Affairs and representative of the United Nations.

Adbdullah Senussi

The whereabouts of Colonel Gaddafi brother-in-law — who is also his top security adviser — were unknown yesterday, leading to speculation that he joined the ranks of defectors to could.

Shukri Ghanem

Libyan opposition television reported that Libya oil Minister one of four officials waiting at the airport of Tunisia's Djerba on Wednesday in the hope of joining Moussa Koussa in London.

Said Omar Abu Dudali

Gaddafi ordered on hearing before overflowing Moussa Koussa of the head of Tripoli of foreign intelligence service, Mr Dudali, to "liquidate" him, according to sources. Mr Dudali was later said to be one of the officials at the airport of Djerba.

Mohammed Abu-al-Qasim al-Zwei (Secretary of people's Congress), al-Ubaydi Al-Ati (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs), Abdel Fattah al-Abidi Younes (Interior Minister) and the former Ambassador of Libya to the UN Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham.

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HP Taps Google print in the sky server - register

HP has announced that its ePrint printers are the first to support Google cloud Print, a service that allows to print via the interwebs.

"With HP ePrint and cloud-aware printers, you get the best print experience via Google cloud Print," sang Stephen Nigro Chief of HP Imaging and printing group in a statement, canned.

Google Director of product management Mike Jazayeri also took a moment for crow, and clarify ePrint that HP printers - available in incarnations OfficeJet, PhotoSmart, envy and LaserJet - are not the only instruments to benefit from cloud service business. "While the cloud printing is possible with any printer that is connected to a PC,"he said, "users can achieve a more simple, intuitive experience by printing directly on a cloud-ready printer." ""

In other words, if your printer can talk cloud print APIs of Google - as do the HP ePrint devices - you can print directly to them by sending your print job to the servers of Google, which checks if your cloud Print-enabled printer is registered with the service. If so, the task of printing goes offshore and your printer spitting it.

If your printer does not Print-enabled clouds, it must be connected to a PC connected to the intertubes.

In a blog Thursday, Abhijit Kalamkar Google software engineer ticket boasted that "you can already use Google cloud print on notebooks of chromium" releases mobile Gmail and Google Docs, a third-party Android applicationa Chrome extension, j and Firefox Add-on.

Mention of the "cahiers chome" Kalamkar, of course, refers to a rather limited of the property, a model - set and one, the Cr-48 Google is still a baby beta, available only for developers just one select, shapers of opinion and other souls to chance.

Cloud of Google Print was revealed in April, as a service to support based on a browser Chrome OS the mountain view, which was intended to appear at the end of 2010. At the time of his announcement, print clouds also said to be able to print from other devices, while Chrome OS was his main reason for "being."

When Chrome OS dragged its expiry date - Google says now that he appear you in "mid-2011" in Acer and Samsung devices - cloud print took a life of its own, launched in December 2010.

But it was expected Thursday that all parties have gathered: cloud Print, clouds Print-ready apps such as Gmail and Google Docs mobile versions and now Cloud Print-ready HP printers. ®

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3Ds: PSP Killer? -TheSixthAxis

The latest handheld, the battle has been won for a long time, but may be a second, much more intense and interesting one around the corner.

The original Fish stubs outside of the PSP has been cleaning the hardware sales and very bad for software sales. Recurring, tweaked, near-disaster of iterations which was leading to the PSPGo is not helped it get a lot more traction in the West. Even in Japan "Go is often embarrassed by the sales charts for the takenevassa so much more than its competitors.

Piracy has been a big problem for the older models, and the uniform prices and less supported (at least of third parties), followed by the latest firmware for the digital distribution model, all had a deleterious effect on the Sony is a powerful little console image.

The Nintendo console is another story. The piracy problems have not made a similar same effect from the sale of the software (though it is sometimes played an important role in the fight), a slow burning flagship titles, which maintains a number of months, even years, longer than the normal industry with their retail price. DS-area relatively cheap production costs means that Nintendo had to make a profit on the very early days and it has long been the market leader in the total number of unit sales.

But it is all history. Handheld race is hotting again, a large mobile gaming market kahmaisu shovels the casual and dedicated to Making the West News on Apple's handhelds with Zorn.

Nintendo 3DS is the entry into force of the water.Is probably fair to say that the Nintendo 3DS has had lukewarm reception. Critics are cynically moaned about the strong first-party launch titles, and all line up, despite the lack of contrast, sales seem to have been good as expected. At least We were told to "sell" the wait seems to take place far away. It has yet to make money, of course, with the recent reckonings, that production costs were $ 105.

The Coordination Centre for the over-stated development group could determine whether the problem has also been a bit of a character to the start. At the same time, it is almost certainly not as big a problem as some would seem to imply, it is the bad press around the console to start and which is never good.

But 3DS makes so many things right now, it has lost its PSP graphical superiority of (one or two labels aside, what I have seen, the 3DS, is equal to or greater than the PSP-standards) of ageing, it is difficult to see that the old dog left in life.

The title is, of course, 3D-gimmick. It is impressive, when it was just right and you will probably see some very interesting and to respond to the use of in the future. I do not think it is a killer feature. To me the power of the 3DS ' font size, the solid construction and the fantastic analog controller (circle Pad) all in the form of a solid base, which allows the console to the familiar and the company's position.

I think augmented reality functionality is intended to be a lot of interesting and important property specifies the name of the future. AR gaming only begins to take off from the beginning of the Apple iPhone to another serious and its use, move the Kinect (start party, EyePet, etc.) and even by pushing the spotlight to the PSP (Invizimals). I'm certainly industry analyst, but I think it is more in the future, as is the 3D AR and the Nintendo 3DS is the first handheld computer, even the first dedicated console, start the wizard.

However, we shall, at least in 3DS Max is a connected lifestyle. Add friends to the new system is still not perfect, but it is a huge step in the right direction. Combined method to play with friends are all there to make the best of the box to the right developers. SpotPass and StreetPass functions, as the case may be, to make mobile social media-device (though in a limited way), and the desire to play the modern demand or printed. These are all things that are either older standards or decent improvements for new implementations, which is wise to ignore.

Now is the life in the fall of the PSP. Success (at least critically) franchises Metal Gear Solid, and the God of War feel very similar to the perspective of a technology platform with instances, rather than a continuous barrage of software quality. The release of the 3D face off PSP with a longstanding interest of graphical and iOS devices are targeting the market more relaxed stability will be the end of the increasingly difficult to see if YOUR PSP can Score victory.

Sony is the NGP will appear in the bags.Of course, this all leads us to the Sony handhelds for the next generation. Seems that the powerful PSP DS value fought a hard battle of gimmicky has taught the Sony experience possible. Looks like a monster, the NGP and the power that the properties. Once again, it will go significantly less powerful, gimmicky, computer to compete in the market. But this time may be different.

Sony will invest heavily in security to prevent doubt, piracy. Even if nothing ever is going to be in the future to ensure respect for the principle of the pirate freely, they should be able to buy a decent head start themselves hackers. The physical media that they would return at least learned how the lack of success on the PSPGo and flash memory instead of the expensive lessons taught, the battery drain of proprietary disk format is ready: o-brainer. Two big hurdles, then jumped in.

Multiple input options (buttons, touch, gyro, rear contact, etc.) may become overused and messy, but they also give developers a huge freedom to experiment with and make much more immersive experience. Even though they might be crammed on each of the game only because they are available, they can expect to improve the game and the player's creative interface between. The important thing is that there is a hardware option.

NGP also displays the same property is specified, any more (thanks to 3 g), 3DS connections. Wi-fi hotspots and 3 G signals are becoming more common to the host organism to most major cities, NGP has the opportunity to be constantly connected, constantly updated and evolving, even if it sits in your pocket.

But it is in the future. Today, the battle of portable, which was largely already done in the new DS decisively won by player. In the future, the market seems to be interesting, if Sony can establish their plans and to refine the NGP, during their manufacture. So it's safe to say that even if this battle has won the war, Nintendo, and Sony is still in progress in the development of a new tank is.

For The PSP? Well, I think it is time for a nice quiet pension, while a new generation of export weapons.

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Amazon's headquarters in the cloud (week in review)-CNET

Amazon.com beat Apple and Google in the race to the cloud, but along the way in which it can also have jumped the gun a little.

Amazon launched a much-awaited digital locker music service where users store their music on the Internet and then listen to their collections on computers with a Web browser or on Android devices. Consumers can save their digital songs, videos, photographs, documents, and music. In addition, Amazon also rolled out Cloud Player that provides the ability to play the songs they transferred to Cloud drives.

But what the company was not licence rights to do this from major Hollywood film studios and top record companies. Certainly, many from movies and music camps believe that Amazon's new service without obtaining the appropriate permission, violates their legal rights, several sources from the sector entertainment told CNET.
• Why Hollywood is not afraid of Amazon's Cloud
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• With Sky move, Amazon, Apple has in its sights
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• Why different browsers on the Web sites, safety in the EU complaint, tech giant says Google is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour in the search, online advertising and smartphone software.
• Why Microsoft takes on Google in Europe
• Google has learned Microsoft antitrust cases? As part of its agreement to end the Federal Trade Commission study, Google agreed to establish a "comprehensive privacy program" after Buzz privacy flap. State's attorney general plans to analyze the proposed merger, which could create a "near-duopoly", to ensure that it will not hurt New York wireless consumers.
• Sprint giant AT&T's bid for T-Mobile
• AT&T CEO: Post-merger world will be "competitive" fight between legislators and app makers of applications that alert users to the police presence has his first accident. In the meantime count similar apps on other platforms themselves lucky, for now
• False Android app steals data, takes shot at pirates
• Windows phone 7 apps: "quality over quantity," Microsoft says
• Free iPhone app improves docs ' contingency plans a new experiment from Google brings Facebooks as button in the mind, but take even more of a nudge from an ahead-of-its-time start-up service which faltered after a sale to Yahoo.
• Google readies ' better ads ' system to Gmail
• Google denies working on facial-recognition app, Google has partnered with MasterCard and Citigroup, which would allow credit and debit cardholders to pay with their Android smartphones instead, The Wall Street Journal reports.
• Report: next Windows phone US to push mobile payments
•, Samsung and visa to launch NFC payments push a collection of analysts polled by Fortune magazine Højmolekylære point unit sales both the original iPad and iPad 2 at anywhere from 5% to 8.8 million for 2011 up through Saturday.
• iPad 2 seller internationally
• eBay reveals its iPad 2 sales data
• Obama has got an iPad and he tethers also as iPhone 5 Vuthaj mill keeps kærning, one of the latest reports suggest that Apple may be a little behind its normal schedule for the last three years. Cybercriminals change focus from private information to prisoners now steal business secrets and other intellectual properties from large companies.
• Report: NSA joins Nasdaq hack probe Baseball season has started. IPhone, iPad, Android phone or BlackBerry, there is an app to help you Follow your team Favorites, keep score on the game or build a killer fantasy lineup.
• GameSlam takes players deeper than fantasy baseball
• Win 1 million dollars for perfect game in MLB 2 K 11

Also of note
• Paul Allen: Gates, Ballmer tried to ' rip me»
• Report: Spam down 33 percent after the Rustock harm
• Buffett warns social networks investors

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Crysis 2 (A) the achievement of the Gorgeous Gaming-the Saint

This week I had to get my hands a copy of the Crysis 2 for the Xbox 360.

Even if it released for the PC and PS3, most of my friends call Xbox home, so I felt obliged to pick up 360 this spring's hottest release version.

Crysis 2 has created a lot of buzz around the world, as well as playing the out-of-the-box. Its predecessor, Crysis, originally released in 2007 for the PC was the incredible graphics, and only the upper end of powerful computers can run the game.

I am the first person to play Crysis. Now, in 2011, I do not have a computer that must be able to use it. Even Crysis 2 deserves praise, that what it has done.

This time around at Crytek, developers decided to release their game consoles in the design of their opening up to more players in the franchise.

Ultimately, they succeeded. You can spend your time, you won't be able to play Crysis 2 beset the alien soldiers and overzealous PMC in Manhattan sets. You can enable the Alcatraz, U.s. Marine, which is a shareholder in the experimental "nanosuit" that augments your talents.

With the force makes a Nanosuit reckoned, because it has the ability to make the invisible, add your armor and superhuman speed and strength.

Crysis 2 the console to see the graphics is the best ever, and the Manhattan building amazing details, such as the United States Census Bureau, the city is torn. Buildings crumble and send the debris and the flames in each direction.

Guns to behave realistically and shall take into account before the entry into force of the recoil and guns blazing in the distance.

You can experience the enemies behave realistically, and, for the most part. Your enemies are a group of people, and they can, you can clear the flank or grenades with if you give them a chance.

An alien who your enemies are not so much, but it is much more nimble than the average trooper hops on top of the cover of the PMC, and to move at a faster pace than that reserved for the gun.

Sometimes you see running blindly into the trooper to the wall or throw grenade of the legs, but these errors are rare.

If you are running a multiplayer game is a real bang is buck Crysis 2. Call of Duty or Halo reach fans find themselves at home here.

Found items are fast-paced and popular game types are here again. Provides a typical capture the flag, Deathmatch, and transformations, the multiplayer feature to keep you busy for a long time after you win the campaign mode.

Crysis 2. Is new, it is here, and it deserves to play.

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Dumping Print, games, NEW publisher Ranch on apps-Reuters

A sale sign seen in a Borders bookstore in San Diego, California 16 February 2011.Credit: Reuters/Mike BlakeBy Mark Egan

NEW YORK | Fri Apr 1, 2011 at 9: 40 am EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters)-Prince of coffee table books think paper books are dead. Now he wants to be King of the app.

Since 1980, made Nicholas Callaway, the finest of design-driven books, construction of a publishing house and its assets on memorable children stories and volumes known for fidelity their reproductions of great art. But the paper, ink and binding quality means something for him now.

Callaway is all about the apps--small programs sold in Apple's App Store where books are extended beyond the mere text in e-books. In this groundbreaking new medium chef can clap hands to turn the pages of an interactive recipe, a book about Richard Nixon can contain recordings of him sweating during the presidential debates, a Sesame Street characters can read a story high andget your child bored, app can turn tale to a puzzle or a computerised finger painting set.

"I have the game the entire Ranch on this," Callaway told Reuters. "This kind of time happens maybe once in a century."

Publishers from New York to London to accept this as a moment of enormous change. The adaptation to rising sales of e-books and of smart phones and tablets like the iPad popularity. Retail landscape has changed with Amazon becoming dominant sells books, while numerous book shops way video rental shops. U.s. No. 2 book store chain, borders, has gone bankrupt. Some authors have dropped their publishers completely independent online and use social media to connect with readers. Others have been able to use Facebook and Twitter to reach readers or have attracted fans becoming popular reviewers of books on Amazon, and then publish their own book.

Callaway is among those who believe that the change has just begun, and in the coming years will change things completely. app

Sitting in his chic offices on Manhattan's cobble-stoned South Street Seaport, 57-year-old Harvard graduate, photographer, father of two Anusara yoga and daily practitioner pig bristles with excitement, as he flips open his iPad worn black cover.

"This is revolutionary, he says, stroking his finger on the iPad glass surface and heavy to open an app, he has developed."This is the Looking Glass. This is Alice in Wonderland. We are at the beginning of a completely new medium ".

More popular e-books sold on Amazon's (AMZN.O) Kindle, Apple's (AAPL.O) iBook store and Barnes and Noble's (BKS.N) higher inventory is electronic reproductions of paper books. Publishing innovators such as Callaway, it will be Apple's App Store, which will ultimately transform the books to a new media.

Titans from Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins competes with the likes of Callaway for a piece of the pie. Experts say it is like a Wild West gold rush, perhaps the biggest moment in publishing since Gutenberg's invention of movable-type printing press in the middle of the 15th century.

FROM SCULPTURE TO "SEX"

Callaway seems an unlikely man to lead a technological revolution in publishing. He started as a publisher at the age of 26, having read the classics at Harvard and spent time in Europe studying art. He had no publishing experience. However, with a $ 5,000 loan from his brother Reeves Callaway he published books on Constantin Brancusi sculptures, on the twentieth century photography icon Alfred Stieglitz and painter Georgia O'Keeffe's best-selling "hundred flowers." He repaid the loan within two years.

He earned fame without book world when he published the book "Sex" Madonnas and later convinced her to write children's books, which has sold millions of copies. But his greatest success began with David Kirk "Miss Spider tea party" in 1994. It was the first children's book and the Callaways sold a million copies in its first year.

Then came the first film entirely from computer-generated images, "Toy Story," in 1995 and Callaway had his "eureka" moment.

"I trøde, it is a new form of storytelling, this will change the world," he said. "We stopped to think of books as the only vehicle for our products and we trøde that several of the core intellectual property, which could be carried out across many different media.

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Ubuntu Linux high-risk narwhal beta floats - register

Canonical's short March towards multi touch success (or its slow slide of oblivion) is a step closer to completion. On Thursday, it released the Ubuntu 11.04 beta.

Natty codename narwhal, Ubuntu 11.04 is the first version of the Linux distribution, which by default was once told to entity, the multi touch interface for touch-only devices.

The change is as canonical combines desktop and NetBook versions of Ubuntu instead.

Announcement of change in interfaces this year, Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth had the GNOME said shell in the same direction as Ubuntu wasn't heading. The sticking point graphics and 3D was using GL, he said.

Unit is a massive undertaking for the distribution, not only because it has spent six years on Gnome, but because it also fundamentally altered the look of Ubuntu and how to install applications and users are available.

Unit sets program icons on the side of the screen, and it has keyboard navigation, and Launcher activation via keyboard shortcuts.

Unit could be, the production or the breaking of Ubuntu, to position it as a user-friendly Linux for a future with touch based systems, or it could frustrate and losing already using it.

Elsewhere, Ubuntu 11.04 tries to bring downloads, app-store-like user reviews and reviews on the Web to the desktop with a software Center for application.

THR distribution contains Firefox 4.0 as the default browser, LibreOffice 3.3.2 and Banshee 1 as the default music player.

On the server side, like Amazon eucalyptus 2.0.2 Jostles for rooms with OpenStack in the universe is a technology preview, with the last snapshot of the 2011.2 version code-named cactus. Shuttleworth made it eucalyptus or OpenStack sounds like Ubuntu in the future as his blessed architecture for private clouds building will be picking.

"In the cloud, we need to tighten up and some firm decisions on the platforms we support for 12.04 LTS," he said in announcing Ubuntu 11.10 - the successor of Ubuntu 11.04 - in March enigmatic. ®

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Apple, Google and Microsoft sued for patent infringement-GizmoCrave

In an interesting turn of events, has a fixed named H-W technology sued 32-sized high-tech companies – including large fishes like Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft — for patents infringement. The lawsuit adds Nokia and Rim also to the list of patent violators.  (H)-W has a single patent awarded way back in April 2009 named Internet Protocol phone with Search and advertising capacity.

The patent is owned by H W describes itself as "a platform in an internet protocol (IP) phone have the ability to use with a variety of communication infrastructure such as broadband, wireless communications and Plain Old telephone system (POTS) service. Software platform in IP phone has the ability to be used with different applications operate on the IP-phone ".

It also claims that the IP phone has the ability to perform additional features than traditional public switched telephone Network (PSTN) phones.

The major part of the patent, which the company has given the utmost importance is that it can perform additional functionality "which searches and advertising, given its ability to converge voice and data within a single terminal.

According to the company, include patent also smartphones. The wording in the patent, has urged the company to file a lawsuit against companies such as Amazon, LG, eBay, Hotels.com, Google, Price line, Expedia, Buy.com, Samsung, Microsoft and Verizon.

The case is currently before the Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division.

Suit law requires a permanent ban on 32 companies involved in the case. Asking for compensation in cash for damage, requires H-W trial also extra damage from companies for knowingly infringe a patent.

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Game day: Nintendo adds a new dimension to the game glasses free 3DS-Sacramento Bee

Nintendo 3DS to play 3-D games without special glasses.

The different versions of the Nintendo DS has sold as many units (more than 130 million around the world), that it may be difficult to remember that, when it was released first in 2004, it had met with bafflement and skepticism.

But Nintendo knew what it was doing, and even if it was a moment of the game's developers to understand the potential of the two displays, touch screen and a pen, now it is difficult to imagine the device without them.

DS Lite in 2006, the slimmed down the system and update the image quality, and support for parents of 2009 dropped for the Game Boy Advance games on the DSi, added support for downloadable games, and included front and rear position (side) cameras.

As the predecessor to the Nintendo 3 DS ($ 249.99) contains two screens, but they are a significant update to the DS and DSI.

The lower 3.02 inch, touch-sensitive screen with a resolution of 320 by 240 pixels. The width of the upper screen is 3.53 inches and the namesake feature of the centerpiece: a 3D stereoscopic effects, not the required glasses. Resolution is 800 240 pixels (400 pixels in each eye).

Move the slider to change the system to switch the players of the 3-d effects, which can be presented to the Diorama-like view, which is displayed on the screen or create even deeper the depth of the simulated images.

Effect of bending of the eye may be a little bit, especially amphetamines, and Nintendo recommends players who are younger than 6 to activate the effect at all. (Parents restrict it, the system of access control.) Some of the games in the 3-D to Add only a little, but the other seems to be fantastic.

The device contains a gyroscope and accelerometer for motion sensitivity and control layout features analog pad digital cross pad. The system has three cameras – one in front and two behind for taking stereoscopic photos.

a few 3D games between the preinstalled applications that take advantage of the cameras. "AR Games" to check a set of cards in 3-D models, regardless of the structure of a flat surface, the device has been found, although the "face" to verify and merge the Raiders on the page below is a list of the enemies to players around the rooms and shoot at the top of the face.

Some system features such as downloads, Nintendo-eShop is still activated.

More than a dozen of games already released March 27. Please read further for more.

Bust-A-move the Universe Square Enix, $ 29.99, which is suitable for everyone – bubble Shooter-puzzle game returns to the touch, this attractive, 3-D. There are a few spaces, but they are all limited to firing color Bubbles is a group of clusters, remove all of them in groups of three or more before they reach the bottom of the screen to try.

Lego Star Wars III: the Clone Wars, $ 39. Lucasarts to 99, with the top 10 and older-this cutesy take the "Clone Wars" Animated Series features some very nice effects, and a child-friendly activities. This version does not have the elements of the game to the console versions, and old musical instruments do not find much differs from other "Lego Star Wars" titles, but one of the basic regulation, the formula will remain fixed.

Ridge Racer 3D to Namco Bandai, $ 39.99, which is suitable for all belong to the "Ridge Racer" well for 3DS, scales the series and its DRIFT oriented racing is intact. The game looks and plays very well – even though is not really anything new in this "Ridge Racer"-veteran game is not good for the charge of the 3DS ' effects.

Electronic Arts, $ 39.99, the Sims 3 top rated Teen – similar to the last year of the console and DS versions of PC hit, "The Sims 3" can take pictures of the players to produce the Sims faces and distinguish clearly the 3-d effects from the game's Isometric view.

Steel Diver Nintendo, $ 39.99, the top 10 and older-slowly self-paced submarine action game "Steel Diver" puts the players in a variety of air-cushion vessels, control, each a different gun, speed and handling characteristics. Players control the Subs, a set of touch-sensitive screen, smaller icons – is intentionally difficult to keep the keystrokes and move forward without bumping things Subs.

Super Street Fighter IV: CAPCOM, $ 39.99, 3D Edition, the most popular among Tea-color images of the 3DS ' starts in a row, "Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition" features in the console versions of the entire fighters proud and display almost as dear to them. The characteristics of the rear-the-shoulder view, the second mode, the demonstration of the 3DS ' depth effects. Touch screen features four "buttons" can be set according to the combinations of standard attacks, taunts, special attacks and other uses.

Now available in other games: asphalt 3D (Ubisoft, $ 39.99 (E)), the Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D (Ubisoft, $ 39.99, E 10-plus), Madden NFL Football (EA, $ 39.99 (E)), the + Cats Nintendogs (Nintendo, $ 39.99 (E)), Pilotwings Resort (Nintendo, $ 39.99 (E)), the Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D (Konami for $ 39.99(E)), the 3D, Rayman (Ubisoft, $ 39.99 (E)), Samurai Warriors: Chronicles (Koei, $ 39.99, T), Super Monkey Ball in 3D (Sega, $ 39.99 (E)), Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars (Ubisoft, $ 39.99, T).

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Facebook to test bargains-like GroupOn service - CNET (blog)

Facebook will soon begin testing a service that will provide its members handed over local, which will be in direct competition with the giant deals daily GroupOn.

The service will be tested in Dallas, Austin, Atlanta, San Francisco, San Diego and will expand the program of the social networking giant, which offers users deals to members when they use Facebook places is to save the local commercial counterthe company said. Members will be able to purchase deals and share with their friends on the network.

"Local businesses will be able to register to use this feature soon and people can find deals in the coming weeks," the Palo Alto, California-based company said today.

Facebook plans to sell trade agreements through its own sales team, as well as working with partners such as Gilt City, Home Run, Pop sugar City, Tippr, deals with the KGB, Plum District, achieving Local, Zozi and open a Table.

With 500 million members, Facebook make a sizable user base in its challenge for dominance on the market of trafficking, which brought $ 873 million in revenue last year and could bring to 3.93 billion by 2015, according to a projection of consulting firm BIA/Kelsey.

Chief among these competitors is Groupon, who has been riding growth half price massages, discounted meals at the restaurant, and negotiates trips. Chicago-based GroupOn, with 60 million users and over 39 million sold in its two years in business transactions is intended to beef up its muscle with an initial public offering later this year.

In addition to grouping, Facebook will have to deal with a multitude of "GroupOn clones", including transactions site LivingSocial, which announced an investment of 175 million of e-commerce giant Amazon.com end of last year.

Facebook will also face competition from Google, which, over the past two years, has been losing talent to the social networking giant. Just a month after was repulsed in an offer of redemption of Groupon, in January, Google confirmed that it is preparing to launch its own social-purchase competitor called Google offers.

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Wall Street Beat: IBM, Apple Riding High-PCWorld

Passes the second anniversary of the great Recession market low this week, remains a pillar industry technology for the company's revenue and investor confidence, as industry bellwethers like IBM and Apple makes impressive share gains.

On March 9, 2009 hit the tech-heavy Nasdaq 1268.64, its lowest point in seven years. In afternoon trading Friday, the index was at 2718.80. Kind of share value increases to tech companies experienced since market bottom two years ago is difficult to maintain, and growth in it stocks, on average, smoothed somewhat recently.

But IT sector financial news this week shows that corporate demand for it and consumer demand for mobile devices will remain high.

A jump in IBM shares to a record level was only one cursor confidence in corporate it. Analysts met with IBM management Tuesday and issued a series of optimistic reports on the heard.

At least four analysts upgraded their recommendations or price targets, and as a result, IBM shares were higher by $ 3.58 to close a record United States $ 165.86 Wednesday. IBM advanced business services and its emphasis on high-margin software and hardware have impressed market Intel.

"We get the sense IBM has rejuvenated pride in massive USD 6 billion annual research and development spend in contrast to multiple standards/commodity-dependent competitors to see continued opportunities to still higher margin mix," said Robert Cirha, in a note, Caris and company research.

IBM, a major bellwether for the enterprise market, started a strong tech earnings season in January, reporting, net income for the fourth quarter increased 9 percent year-on-year, $ 5.3 billion, while revenue rose 7 percent to $ 29 billion. It was the strongest quarterly sales increase to IBM for nearly 10 years, and in accordance with the predictions, enterprise sales, special software, will be an important driving force for growth in the foreseeable future.

Mobile devices including the tablets will also fuel growth for tech, according to a row of recent reports. For example, delivered 10.1 million media tablets in the fourth quarter of 2010, more than double the 4,5 million shipped in the third quarter, according to an IDC report Thursday.

The report also said that the eReader market jumped up in the fourth quarter. Strong sales of Amazon's Kindle and gains from Pandigital, Barnes and Noble, and Sony, Hanvon also contributed to the growth of the market, IDC said. EReader market in the fourth quarter more than doubled volume from the previous quarter, with more than 6 million units shipped, IDC said.

"Strong holiday sales of media tablets were in line with IDC projections and strong consumer interest in the category while the device vendors offer encrypted products competitive with Apple's iPad and now iPad 2," said Loren Loverde, an IDC vice President, in the report.

Apple, which has more than 90 percent of the Tablet market at this time, publish iPad 2 Friday and is basking in the glow of its latest hit product. Apple shares were up by $ 4.89 to $ 351.52 in late afternoon trade.

Increased dissemination of tablets and advanced smartphones also have a positive effect on corporate equipment sales, as companies scramble to update the network to handle an increase in traffic from the new devices.

Global WLAN (wireless LAN) equipment sales jumped by 28 percent to $ 769 million in the fourth quarter of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009, according to a report from Infonetics Research last week. On Wednesday, said a report by Dell'Oro group that WLAN equipment sales for all 2010 jumped 25 percent to exceed USD 5 billion.

"We believe that it is another sign of the continuing importance of wireless LAN to companies; network infrastructure, and a global economy that is on the upswing, "said Loren Shalinsky, senior analyst Wireless LAN research at Dell'Oro, in the report.

With attention on the company's software and mobile devices had not sector PC great respect at the latest. But iSuppli this week pointed out that global PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010 totaled 93.1 million units, up 5 percent from 88.7.1 million in the third quarter of 2010 and an increase of 4.7 per cent from 88.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.

PC shipments in fourth quarter hit a new quarterly record, "blowing past" the previous record 88.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009, the report said.

"With his record performance during the last three months of 2010 worldwide business as PC took yet another step towards becoming a market generate 100 million units per quarter," said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst at iSuppli. "With the market comes back strong text wrapping feature growth in the mid-teens, PC industry will look back on 2010 as a year, which exceeded expectations."

Although much of the growth in the last two years took place in the quarters immediately after the 2009 trough, leader of the tech sector still.

In the third quarter last year, the Nasdaq and other major United States exchanges were already back to the level they were at before Wall Street fell in September 2008. Tech had little to do with the essence of our confidence in the markets. Although tech stocks slumped for most of the third quarter last year as fears of a double-dip recession took hold, it companies, reporting strong sales especially for companies, began to lead markets after U.S. Labor Day holiday in early September.

Now, the computer shares on the exchange is on average, 1.56 percent since Jan 1 and telecom equipment is 0.13 percent--both large better than any other sector except for industrial customers. Nasdaq itself is 1.82 percent since the beginning of the year and 14 percent in the last 12 months.

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Which Tablet works best? Apple iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom vs. Samsung Galaxy tab-PCWorld

The Apple iPad 2 has arrived, and the big question is, how does it stack up against the competition? To provide an answer, I've been testing the iPad 2 next to the Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Here are my thoughts about which models perform best on ten crucial criteria.

Which Tablet Is Easiest to Hold?

Hands-down, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab gets the nod here. Yes, it's chunky (0.5 inch thick, with boxy sides); but at a weight of 0.8 pound, it's significantly lighter than the iPad 2 (1.3 pounds).

That said, the 9.7-inch iPad 2 (at left) is the way to go if you want a tablet with a bigger screen. It's much easier to hold than its predecessor, thanks to its tapered sides, thinner design, and lighter weight (the original iPad tipped the scales at 1.5 pounds). The Motorola Xoom, at 1.6 pounds and with a thickness of 0.5 inch, is leaden by comparison.

Weight and thickness matter more than you might think--and not just because most people like to hold a book or magazine in one hand to read it. It's important to realize that when you use the tablet without a surface, you are essentially holding it one-handed, because you have to use your other hand to operate the tablet.

Which Tablet Has the Best Screen?

Here, the iPad 2 (at left) gets the win. Images on its display looked evenly and accurately saturated and balanced. I wish that text looked significantly sharper--I prefer precise text with no jaggies, the way it appears on an iPhone 4--but the iPad 2 still beats the competitors in its category.

The rival tablets have different shortcomings. I liked the sharpness of the Galaxy Tab's 1024-by-600-pixel display, but not the tendency of its 7-inch LCD to produce oversaturated colors (the Tab is shown on top of the Xoom in the picture below). The Tab is a pleasure to look at otherwise, and it finishes a close second to the iPad overall, but don't expect a high level of color accuracy from it.

The Xoom has a 1024-by-800-pixel display, but its text rendering was inconsistent, with several fonts showing unexpected choppiness (I especially got this impression in the Web browser, and in the Google Books app). More worrisomely, colors appeared to be off (the image at left shows the Xoom's duller colors, as compared with the Tab's oversaturated colors). Since the Xoom is the only Android 3.0 tablet to appear so far, I can't say whether these failings are due to the way Honeycomb handles rendering or whether they reflect problems with the Xoom's display.

Which Tablet Has the Best Keyboard?

I suspect that the best keyboard for a tablet has yet to be produced. I liked some of what I saw with the HP TouchPad, which includes multiple keyboard sizes and a number row built in to the main keyboard.

In the tussle between the iPad 2's keyboard and the Xoom's, however, I give the nod to iOS and the iPad 2. Its keyboard did a better job of keeping up with my touch-typist fingers, whereas the Xoom lagged whenever I input data at full speed. I liked the Xoom's larger button sizes and its inclusion of a Tab key, but the input lag drove me bonkers. The Galaxy Tab's keyboard is unremarkable by comparison: Like an Android keyboard on a giant phone, it's small and cramped in comparison to the bigger tablets' keyboards, and it lacks the speed to keep up with touch-typing.

Which Tablet Is Best for Data Transfers?

The Galaxy Tab (now) and the Xoom (soon) have the edge here. Because they are Android-based tablets, your PC will recognizes them as mass storage devices when they are connected via USB. As a result, you can drag and drop files onto your tablet without converting them to a different format and without using special software. True, the tablet will take a moment to recognize the new images in the library, for example; but this approach is preferable to Apple's locked-down universe, which requires you to use iTunes, the least satisfying, least capable, least flexible file management tool out there today. Both the Galaxy Tab and the Xoom have MicroSD card slots, though you must enable the Xoom's through a software upgrade. The resulting expansion potential is lacking in the iPad 1 and the iPad 2.

Which Tablet Provides the Best Notifications?

Of the models I looked at, notifications were best on Android 3.0 Honeycomb devices. The Honeycomb interface puts its notifications bar at the bottom right, where it unobtrusively informs you of new e-mail messages, new OS or software updates (for example, Pulse reader notifies you when new content is available), and completed downloads. New messages pop up there and then disappear. Tapping on the bar expands the notifications so that you can view them all. The same notifications bar shows time, connection status, and battery life; and you get more details plus one-tap access to settings when you tap to expand the bar.

Apple's iPad feels archaic by comparison. It provides notifications via a pop-up window that interrupts and disrupts your other activities. If you don't touch your device and you receive multiple notifications at once, iOS will collect them into a single window for you to view when you return. But if you get one for AIM (for example), dismiss it, and then get another one for AIM, it will pop up over whatever your current activity is each time, requiring you to take action in order to return to your activity. On the other hand, you get no notifications of new e-mail messages: To get those you must go to your e-mail app.

The Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2, which delivers notifications in the "classic" Android style--a pull-down bar at the top of the screen--but they're far less elegant and usable than the notifications in Android 3.0.

Which Tablet Is Best for Multimedia?

The answer depends, in part, on your shopping habits and on how you use your tablet. Android 3.0 on the Xoom is a terrific multimedia combination: HD movies look great in the widescreen aspect ratio, you get Flash support for online video, and Google's redesigned music player is very appealing. On the other hand, Android 3.0 lacks a dedicated video player, so your videos get meshed into the Image Gallery.

Apple's iPad requires iTunes syncing--a drawback considering the albatross that iTunes has become on the whole. But it's fairly good for organizing and keeping track of your media, and if the files are in a supported format, you can add your own videos to the iTunes library. If you have an iPod or iPhone, and you shop at iTunes, the iPad is a no-brainer for its seamless integration with the iTunes Store (shown here). At the moment, Google lacks anything comparable, though I can imagine Google deciding to sell music (Google Music is already a reoccurring rumor) and videos through its Market.

The Galaxy Tab uses Samsung's Media Hub to make music and video purchases, and to play them back. But Media Hub purchases are usable only with Samsung Media Hub devices, including Samsung mobile phones and televisions. Media Hub's selection is growing, but it's nowhere close to iTunes in depth.

Which Tablet Is Best for Organizing Your Stuff?

No currently available tablet makes managing your files easy. But the Xoom is the best bet right now. You don't get direct access to files and folders on the device, as you do in Microsoft Windows, but plenty of third-party apps will let you access files that are aboard the tablet (and when enabled, aboard the MicroSD card) in a standard folder view. You can download content from the Web browser, like a .zip file. And in the Google image gallery, you can view image info, crop it, and share it via Bluetooth. Meanwhile, organizing apps into home screens is simple, thanks to a split-screen approach that lets you select an app and drag it to your home screen of choice--all on the device.

Organizing apps on the iPad is tiresome, and you can forget accessing files stored on the device in order to reorganize, rename them, or do something with them. Apple has locked down the file system.

The Galaxy Tab lacks Android 3.0's niceties for organizing apps, but it does offer various options for sharing files. The Galaxy Tab also shows you image information, and it lets you crop an image. An accompanying app called My Files lets you view a file/folder directory of your content; but this simple app is incapable of renaming or moving files.

Which Tablet Is Best for Web Browsing?

The clear advantage in Web browsing goes to the Xoom. The Xoom's tabbed interface makes navigating through a multitude of Web pages remarkably easy. I also liked the visual bookmarks and appreciated the support for Adobe Flash Player 10.2.

The iPad 2 and the Galaxy Tab are both stuck in the dark ages of Web browsing. Both tablets permit you to access only one page at a time, so you must exit one page before you browse to another. In addition, both models limit the number of windows you can have open at a time.

Which Tablet Is Best for Gaming?

Apple's iPad 2 enjoys the clear advantage here. Today, Apple's iOS has a bigger selection and a bigger commitment from content makers than Android does, though more Android 3.0 games should become available as the year progresses. Millions of people use iPads already, and third-party benchmarks indicate that the new A5 chip has more graphics muscle than Nvidia's Tegra 2, which is found in the Xoom and in all announced Honeycomb tablets to date.

The Xoom has considerable potential for games, but first more Honeycomb-optimized apps must be developed first. Only then will it be possible to gauge how synthetic benchmark readings of the iPad's graphics capabilities stack up in the real world to its rivals'. As for the Galaxy Tab's prospects for gaming, let's just say that the future of Android gaming won't happen in Android 2.2 on a 7-inch tablet.

Which Tablet Is Best for Reading?

All of the major booksellers have apps available across mobile operating systems--except for Apple's iBooks, which (as you'd expect) is available only on iOS. All three offer flexibility in your choice of reading platform and shopping site; but in my opinion, none of these tablets is especially good for reading. I recommend instead the only tablet that isn't technically a tablet: Barnes & Noble's NookColor. Though NookColor runs Android 2.1, it lacks Google services and can't freely download or sideload apps. B&N remains the only company that has managed to combine very smooth text with an LCD screen that has very little glare.

Of the three true tablets, the Galaxy Tab has the edge because of its smaller size and sharper text quality. Apple's iPad 2 comes in second. Its larger screen makes it a good choice for viewing digital magazines or magazine apps, and it's good for viewing larger-print text. In addition, you have plenty of choice with regard to reading apps and bookstores, including Apple's iBooks and competitors such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble (that could change, however, once Apple begins enforcing its crackdown on in-app purchase options). Whichever model you choose, I recommend playing with the font choices in your chosen e-reader app, as some fonts render more smoothly than others.

Ditto for the Xoom: Font rendering could be an issue, as some text fonts look sharper than others. Today, the best reading app available for Xoom is Google Books, but its display options are limited (only three font sizes?) and using it entails committing to buying your books through Google's Market bookstore. Still, you do get a few font choices, and some of them render better than others. Honeycomb-optimized versions of Amazon's Kindle app and B&N's Nook app should arrive soon.

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We, the Japanese students use Facebook, Twitter for card crisis Points - Voice of America

Sharon Behn. Washington on March 14, 2011  rescue conduct search operations in slow in Kesennuma, Northern the Japan debris, March 14, 2011 after the massive earthquake of Friday and the tsunami that followed. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Miho Ikeya) OUT JAPAN, COMPULSORY CREDIT

The United States students work with others in the Japan to collect urgent information on networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook social, to help create a map to locate areas of crisis in the whole of the island nation.

A few hours only after a huge earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast of Japan, students half-a-world away responded. A group in Boston, in the northeastern State of Massachusetts to the United States, began to go through thousands of Internet messages, try to collect a card which was going on the field to the Japan.

Berry of Robert student at Tufts University in Boston, says their purpose is to contribute to the relief effort. "It is fundamentally"crisis mapping"." Draw the crisis for the people on the ground, victim or agencies who will answer so that they have a better image, "says.

People have used this type of technology since political unrest hit Kenya in his election in 2008.  And it was used again in Haiti after the earthquake of 2010 and Libya during its recent political upheaval.

Berry describes what they are looking for in this disaster. "They see a fire in a hospital or they see people trapped under a building or something or that they know that someone is trapped, what they can do, assuming that they have access, they can then communicate that the renseignementset then find us".make to the interface, "says.

In a country of tech-savvy as the Japan, Berry, says information, its Japanese counterparts and colleagues are together helping to put in place an image more precise, as well as a human face to the tragedy. "He brings the situation you like never before," he said.

With the common crisis, a worldwide network of users of computers working in response to the crisis, leaders say that students are part of a growing international community of volunteers who can quickly screen large amounts of data to create detailed information maps.

They say that within 24 hours of the disaster to the Japan it there were 75 people around the world, including students in the U.S. Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology universities, assemble the details on where people are, and local roads and transport conditions.

14-03-2011 azar (Ghana)

not to worry all will be ok

14-03-2011 Wendy (Canada)

Can anyone tell me if Sanjo city at the Japan was affected by the earthquake of Earth? I had 2 Exchange students to stay with me to Sanjo. I am very worried. Thank you Wendy

15-03-2011 I ANM whether Wakayama was hot by the earthquake...I have 2 friends he (usa)

I want to know if wakayana has been hit by the earthquake

15-03-2011 (US)

I checked a map online, and I am sure that Sanjo is not affected. Keep your hopes! :)

15-03-2011 ZHUYU (China)

what students have done the praise.

15 03-2011 Anonymous (Antarctica)

OHH.... It's very sad, I hope that everything will be better!

15-03-2011 Katelyn (USA)

Does anyone know how heavy damage in Morioka, Iwate was? I know how close to Iwate is Miyagi Prefecture Sendai)... but I hope that this was not quite as horrible.

15 03-2011 hamad part 1 of 1 (Oman)

It is a good idea that could help to many Japanese to be aware of the situation on the ground and pick up their decision wisely especially during this difficult period and disturbance. It will help the efforts of humanitarian aid to reach the location quickly and safely. This map of crisis could be updated instantly which facilitate the tense and regulate the effort and helps effectively. Japanese Government should provide more information on this map to lead the Japanese to make the right decision in a short time.

15-03-2011 bey (China)

Everyone he bless.It cannot bind to Facebook in China.

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Hacking Times Square with an iPhone-NBC New York

Viral hoax-in-waiting or brilliant marketing display of the iPhone's hidden possibilities?Watch and you decide. Maybe we are just one in an early list of sites to be misled by this bizarre intriguing YouTube video, but we still couldn't help but watch it several times.In a two-minute YouTube video posted on Sunday evening, claiming to have a transmitter BITcrash44 added to his iPhone that allows him about each video screen.If true, the trick is to get the attention of the designers of Apple in Cupertino, Calif., About his video

BITcrash44 writes: the way it works is pretty simple: in my channel in the iphone 4 plug and play back a video clip. you can play through the function for ipod or via the camera roll. the transmitter immediately sends the video to the video signal repeater and repeater overwrites all the video video screen that besides. It doesn't matter what shape or size the hacked screen is because the video hack will love you just the right size and the rest of the hacked space should be left as black.

He chose some of the most famous video screens in the world to show off its technology. With just a iPhone, its transmitter, an HD camera and a little help from a red balloon creates BITcrash44 a video that is sure to have people crying wolf.Real or fake? You tell us.

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IE, Safari, iPhone, BlackBerry to Microsoft fall; Chrome, Firefox, Android... - Washington Post (blog)

Microsoft - a computer-security annual competition in which researchers will compete to win cash prizes and hardware by exploiting browsers Web - end of last week, and the results may surprise you.

The first browser to obtain the machete was Apple's Safari. As Peter Bright of Ars Technica wrote Thursday, almost current 5.0.3. version of Safari, if running on a Mac OS X updated copy 10.6.6, succumbed to a malicious page written by French researchers with VUPEN, a security firm, in a few seconds.

They have proven the attack distance launches Mac Calculator program and writes a file to flash the MacBook Air drive - earn the right to keep the laptop, according to the rules of the competition.

Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft, running on Windows 7, updated with Service Pack 1, fell later in the day. Bright report note that the IE 8 exploits hack more at issue and that was five to six weeks to build, against two for Safari feat.

The second day of Microsoft (organized by the subsidiary based in Austin TippingPoint DVLabs have HP and held each year, at the CanSecWest Conference in Vancouver), the iPhone 4, and a flame BlackBerry smartphone also suffered successful hacks. Although the iPhone 4 did not iOS of just-released to Apple 4.3 - the rules of the competition only requires that the target device before being current as of the week before software execution - vulnerability exploited in the attack are 4.3, too.

In two days, nobody has even tried to challenge Google's Chrome (even if Google has offered a separate scholarship to anyone who could hack chromium), Mozilla Firefox, OS of a s link smartphone running Google Android 2.3 or a Pro of the place of Dell with Microsoft Windows Phone 7.

(Google shipped the first patch for a bug to Microsoft, Gregg Keizer of Computerworld writes this morning.)

There is not much interpretation needed for these results, right? Apple Mac OS X is a platform dangerously insecure - it has been successfully hacked Microsoft every year since its debut in 2007 - which should be avoided if you do not want your computer to get supported by a drive - by download.

Except... This is not the actual experience of the use of a Mac. Or an iPhone. Both Apple computer and phone operating systems remain almost completely free of viruses, worms and Trojan horses, even while Apple market share has increased dramatically in both markets.

For example, Apple now claims 20% of the U.S. market of consumers, a number which would have been incredibly high only 10 years ago. IOS of the iPhone is 27 percent of the U.S. smartphone, linked with phones BlackBerry from Research In Motion and just behind Google Android, according to the latest research from Nielsen.

Should even 20 percent of the market enough to attract the interest of the authors of malicious software? I asked on Twitter and a blogger for ZDNet Ed Bott vet­eran Windows interesting response. He replied that "malware writers play a numbers game overall." OS x a ~ 6% in the world. »

But if current trends continue, it would not long before that the Mac hits 10 percent of the total market. Who will be sufficient? Or malware will continue to be a market in which Mac users marginalized at a considerably lower selection of third-party software from running on Windows?

Latest Apple security moves suggests he has an idea where things are lead: for the first time in recent history, it shares advance copies of its operating system Mac OS X Lion to come with security researchers. What is your forecast for Mac malware? Let me know in the comments.

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City Ballet A-Twitter about poles - Wall Street Journal

New York City Ballet is called to become a performing-arts major companies first in the country to govern the positions of its employees on Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets.

And Devin Alberda, Member of the corps de ballet of the company, is part of the reason why.

After the news of his boss of the drunk driving arrest was made public, Mr. Alberda tweeted: "Thank goodness riding the subway while intoxicated is not an offence to offence," adding the hashtag "# dontfireme."

In an another tweet, it fun a character in a production with a reference to the presidential executive order that paved the way for the Japanese internment camps: "Yellowface character 2010 renewal of co-leads the magic flute the worst thing to happen to the community of Asian Americans for EO 9066.".

Many professional ballet dancers have Twitter accounts, complete the curtain on a cloistered world long with details on their process of warming backstage or this that they snack you on intermission.

But some, like Mr. Alberda, went further, showing the kind of recriminations of the work day or jokes dancers may say to another, but which are rarely available publicly.

The company is now negotiating a policy of social media in the negotiations of contract with the union of the dancers, the American Guild of Musical Artists.

The Executive Director of the ballet, Katherine Brown, said: "because the use of social media increased significantly and will continue to do so, as many organizations the company explores the development of guidelines on social media for all artistic and administrative employees in their professional lives."

National Executive Director of the union said it saw no need for a social networking policy but would not object so that the rules do case dancers.

"In part, City Ballet is a public trust, and that employees have the right to use social media to rent or to criticize what it does, said Alan Gordon, national Executive Director of the AGMA.".

The proposed policy differs significantly from those at several large companies, although it would be among the first to be adopted by a company performing-arts major. Boston Ballet is to negotiate a similar agreement.

In New York, the policy would require dancers to include a warning that their comments are not sanctioned by the employer, according to a copy of a project reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

It would also prohibit them from disclosing another dancer injury or disease and validate photographs of corporate events, or to "persons committed in New York City Ballet business without their consent."

"In addition, to protect its interests, co-leads reserve the right to monitor postings that are accessible by the public or those who are not protected privacy on the company, its employees and its activities",... ", explains the project."

But then that comparable to policies governing employee online conduct, the rules would be a departure from the laissez-faire approach taken by the ballet up to this point.

This attitude appears if be moved, partly because cases such as Mr. Alberda, 24 years old, which explains its public tweets have caused "rumblings of discontent" in the administration of the ballet.

In an interview with the newspaper, he said its September tweet on the "character of Yellowface"in "The magic flute" prompted a member of the management to warn that it was "playing with fire" "criticizing ballet master in Chief (and choreographer Magic Flute) Peter Martins.".

Mr. Alberda also visited on Twitter for poke gentle company benefactor David Koch. Mr. Koch refused to comment on.

Musings on line of dancers can advance interests of the business by attracting a younger demographic, a goal, he tried to achieve with other tactics.

But transparency enabled by Twitter and Facebook is a new frontier for a profession which is often perceived as placing a premium on the orderly conduct.

Still, the proposal, if implemented, is unlikely to have much effect on one of the most bizarre stream Twitter co-leads related: a false account for Mr. Martins.

"A call to backstreetboys @ + @ NKOTB got asked to do this w us next season," the false Mr. Martins tweeted earlier this month. "That he considers."

Write to Erica Orden to erica.orden@wsj.com

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PingWin software joins Linux Foundation - Marketwire (press release (copyright))

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - 14 March 2011)-the Linux Foundation, which has not-for profit organization, the acceleration of the growth of Linux, PingWin software is its newest member.

PingWin software is a leading system integrator in Russia and focuses on Linux and open source software integration. PingWin software is the first Russian company to join the Linux Foundation.

The company is the Linux Foundation in close cooperation with the world-wide Linux community on technical issues and connect business strategies. It starts this work with the participation of the open compliance programme (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/compliance), which contains a number of open source tools, training curricula and a new self-governing assessment checklist, to ensuring that companies can.

"Our Linux Foundation membership will give us an insider look of the latest Linux and open source trends, as well as give us the possibility of cooperation with leaders from during the Linux ecosystem," said Dmitry Komissarov, CEO of PingWin software. "Our work on the open compliance program and other activities will inform us important insights, our business and our customers deliver."

"PingWin software is an important addition to the Linux Foundation." His international perspective an important while we continue our open compliance program, tires, said Amanda McPherson, Vice President of marketing and developer programs, the Linux Foundation.

Home country PingWin software is one of many throughout the world, which are moving to Linux and open source software for Government. In December announced Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, that the Government of its proprietary operating system on a Linux based operating system by 2015 migrate would.

PingWin software
PingWin Software Ltd. was founded in the year 2009. This is the cycle IT company, the services on the basis of the FOSS (free/libre/open-source software): consultation, development, migration, upgrade and support. The company's mission is the effectiveness of organizations increase Russian companies and Government agencies by implementing the best FOSS solutions in their information systems. PingWin software is an active member of the Russian Union of free software (RASPO). More information on PingWin software: www.pingwinsoft.ru

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium, promote the growth of Linux dedicated. Founded in 2007, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and increases the operating system Linux to marshaling the resources of its members and the open-source developer community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for cooperation and education by hosting Linux conferences, including LinuxCon and Linux generate increased basic research and content, the understanding of the Linux platform. Its Web properties, including Linux.com, reach around two million people per month. The organization offers extensive Linux training opportunities, the experts leading community with the Linux kernel as an instructor. On Twitter, follow the Linux Foundation.

Brands and labels: The Linux Foundation, Linux Standard base, MeeGo and Yocto project are trademarks of the Linux Foundation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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Top Linux distributions for each level user - Datamation

In the past I have spent an enormous amount of time, a conversation about the different ways that desktop Linux must be easier for new users. At the same time, not me, that knowingly, prefer actually "learn Linux" did rather than everything for them "out of the box." After all, there is to say something to fix something on a granular level.

In this article I will highlight some of the best Linux distributions for advanced as well as some large for those intermediate and new users. In any case, I will provide the information on the effective use of Linux distributions for all those.

Linux for advanced

Gentoo - designed so that very customizable and portable, is Gentoo a longtime favorite among many of the Linux elite. With Gentoo source code is compiled level on local software on the Portage system is installed and the documentation of the end user can be much support for getting things running.

Gentoo is ideal for:

• Users want to customize their Linux install on very specific needs.

• Optimization of the installed source code be run as smoothly as possible on an individual PC.

• Users who want to experience the detailed and hardcore aspects with a Linux installation.

• Persons, the a "rolling release" distribution of Linux on the desktop.

Described as the embodiment of the simplicity and elegance in an amazing package, Arch Linux is the perfect distribution for the advanced user searchArch Linux - in a more advanced penetrate rolled up in Linux. Arch is still a certain amount of time things setup, if you heavily use specific configurations. Still, a decent DIY distribution is arch. The arch is designed so that you can learn as you go. By using the packaging concept known as "Pacman" Arch are able, keep their software with great ease to the current.

Arch is ideal for:

• Persons the inner workings of their Linux distribution as interacts with your computer want to learn, but not a whole weekend to spend installing the base system.

• Intermediate users with the preconfigured Linux distributions, much to the imagination let that not bored.

• One user rolling version of Linux distribution.

Despite the somewhat more challenging in the management of software dependencies, Slackware,Slackware - offers some of the other functions of a modern Linux distribution. These include install and update or remove software. Fortunately, tools such as "Slapt Get" can a great help for Slackware users, want to keep their software at Bay. As a DIY type of distribution offered, it provides strong stability, willing to roll up their sleeves and dive right in. While simplicity of use as primary focus is to see, Slackware is only slightly easier to manage for newcomers as Gentoo.

Slackware is ideal for:

• Arch Linux users, try something else. Slackware is like arch one before distribution allows the user much customizable changes make, as they see fit.

• Continue to find a simple and elegant alternative to other less complex distributions available people.

• People who would rather handle dependencies themselves. Ignore software such as Slapt get, is definitely a distribution Slackware, you handle the intricacies of the software compilation itself.

Advanced user friendly distributions

Fedora - simply my favorite distro, is still a sound experience without all the fanfare as it has the cutting edge of software memory pressure conditions to Ubuntu. Fedora is a great option for advanced users, because it then will not need some adjustments, but it is enough to overwhelm it. You can find out of the box using various wireless and USB modem needs on your own. Another factor to note taking is Fedora is very focused FoSS and not non-free codecs. It requires a third-party repository use Add. For advanced users, this is but not a major problem.

Fedora is ideal for:

• User, a cutting edge experience without the use of Ubuntu.

• Find people to use RPM packages for software.

• A rapidly developing FoSS friendly Linux distribution.

• Decent documentation for most users need.

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